basking question

[charles]

My six week old veiled is shedding for the first time "yea". My question is however he has been basking almost exclusively under his uvb light for the past 48 hours. I was worried about "sunburn". he has a 5% reptisun compact fluorescent bulb it is only 85 degrees under this lamp but is the uvb that i'm worried about.

 

[wow]

well i would rase the regualar basking bulbs temp to 95 and also i have witnesed my cham seek out his uvb source and sit there for hours i dont think you have to worry about sun burn chams have scales and not skin.

 

[Dave Weldon]

Howdy,

In general, if he is 6"-12" inches away from a good Reptisun 5.0, he will get enough UVB to assist in D3 production. If he was an inch away all day from that tube then I'd be a little concerned that he might be too close.

EDIT: Let me add to what I said... I see that you have a compact UVB. The UVB intensity of those "folded-up" tubes is higher that the standard 18" Reptisun 5.0 linear tube. I would make sure that he can't just sit under it all day if the distance is less than 6".

 

[charles]

Dave i should have been more clear. his basking site is 95-100. it is just 85 degrees undeer the uv lamp. Thank you very much for your tim and for replying to my thread

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Charles,

It is my opinion that for a six week old veiled 85 degrees should be the hottest temp in the enclosure.
Personally, I would be working to bring the temps down (70 to 75 ambient and 80 to 85 basking).
When they are young they need it a bit cooler.
I would pull all the lights way back....I didn't even give my veiled a basking light till he was about 4 months old.
Also night time temps should be 60 to 65 degrees.

 

[Dave Weldon]

Howdy,

In general, if he is 6"-12" inches away from a good Reptisun 5.0, he will get enough UVB to assist in D3 production. If he was an inch away all day from that tube then I'd be a little concerned that he might be too close.

EDIT: Let me add to what I said... I see that you have a compact UVB. The UVB intensity of those "folded-up" tubes is higher that the standard 18" Reptisun 5.0 linear tube. I would make sure that he can't just sit under it all day if the distance is less than 6".

Howdy,

While looking for something else, I ran across the original source of the info that I was remembering about for my comment about compact UVB fluorescent lamps and danger distances: http://www.uvguide.co.uk/reptisuncompacts.htm